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Gamage Presents Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidance: A Tentative Defense of "Double Taxation" Today at Michigan

Posted on April 09, 2008
David Gamage (UC-Berkeley) presents Optimal Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidance: A Tentative Defense of "Double Taxation" at Michigan today as part of its Tax Policy Workshop Series. Here is the abstract: Classical corporate income taxes, state-level gross receipts taxes,...

CDF: Low-Income Families Lose Billions to Predatory Commercial Tax Preparers

Posted on April 09, 2008
The Children's Defense Fund has released Halting the Loss of Billions of Dollars in Earned Income Tax Credit Benefits Low-income families lost billions in tax year 2005 in Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) benefits to high-interest, short-term loans, tax preparation...

UVA Class of 1990: 86% Satisfied With Life, Median Income = $250k

Posted on April 09, 2008
Press release from Virgina: Study: 86 Percent of '90 Grads Satisfied With Life: [John Monahan delivered a public lecture on UVA Lawyers at Mid-life: How Full the Glass? to mark his appointment as the John S. Shannon Distinguished Professor of...

Tax Prof Mitchell Kane Leaves Virginia for NYU

Posted on April 09, 2008
Tax Prof Mitchell Kane is leaving Virginia to join the NYU faculty. Here is the memo from NYU Dean Richard Revesz: MEMORANDUM To: The Law School Community From: Richard Revesz Date: April 7, 2008 Re: Mitchell Kane I am delighted...

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DOJ Announces National Tax Defier Initiative

Posted on April 09, 2008
The Department of Justice yesterday announced that it has created a National Tax Defier Initiative: Nathan J. Hochman, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department?s Tax Division, announced the creation of the National Tax Defier Initiative or TAXDEF...

Tax Legislation Roundup

Posted on April 09, 2008
H.R. 5720, The Housing Assistance Tax Act of 2008 Bill Text House Description Joint Committee on Taxation Description (JCX-27-08) Joint Committee on Taxation Estimated Revenue Effects (JCX-24-08) H.R. 5719, The Taxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act of 2008 Bill Text House...

Vault's Top 25 Law Schools Based on Preparation for Law Practice

Posted on April 09, 2008
Vault has released a ranking of the Top 25 law schools based on a survey of "nearly 400 hiring partners, hiring committee members, associate interviewers and recruiting professionals across the country on which law schools best prepare their graduates to...

Turnipseed: Deathbed Marriages in America

Posted on April 09, 2008
Terry L. Turnipseed (Syracuse) has published How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Days: Deathbed Marriages in America, 96 Ky. L.J. 275 (2008). Here is the abstract: Should you be able to marry someone who has only days...

District Court: IRS Broke Its Own Rules in Revoling Democratic Leadership Council's Tax Exemption

Posted on April 08, 2008
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held last Friday that the IRS broke its own rules in revoking the tax exemption of the Democratic Leadership Council, a forum for centrist "New Democrats" co-founded by former President Bill...

Swain: Reforming the State Corporate Income Tax: A Market State Approach to the Sourcing of Services

Posted on April 08, 2008
John A. Swain (Arizona) has posted Reforming the State Corporate Income Tax: A Market State Approach to the Sourcing of Services on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The state corporate income tax is about to undergo its most serious re-examination...

Blank Presents What's Wrong With Shaming Corporate Tax Abuse Today at UConn

Posted on April 08, 2008
Joshua D. Blank (currently a tax VAP at NYU. who will join Rutgers-Newark in the fall) presents What's Wrong With Shaming Corporate Tax Abuse, 61 Tax L. Rev. ___ (2008), at UConn today as part of its Tax Lecture Series....

Ventry: Save the Economic Substance Doctrine from Congress

Posted on April 08, 2008
Dennis J. Ventry, Jr. (American) has posted Save the Economic Substance Doctrine from Congress, 118 Tax Notes 1405 (Mar. 31, 2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Over the last several years, federal courts have invalidated abusive transactions by relying...

Schlunk: Why Tennessee (and Every Other State) Should Have a (Broad-Based) Income Tax (and a Retail Sales Tax, Too)

Posted on April 08, 2008
Herwig J. Schlunk (Vanderbilt) has posted Why Tennessee (and Every Other State) Should Have a (Broad-Based) Income Tax (and a Retail Sales Tax, Too) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper examines the general relationship between state tax policy....

Taxpayer Sicks Pit Bull on IRS Employee

Posted on April 08, 2008
Woman Apologizes for Pitbull Attack on IRS Employee (Web CPA): Lisa Hrizco Blechman of Santa Clarita Valley, Calif., apologized at her sentencing hearing for trying to sick her two dogs on an IRS employee who taped a summons on her...

Law Prof Blog Rankings

Posted on April 08, 2008
Below are the updated quarterly traffic rankings (visitors and page views) of the leading blogs edited by law professors with publicly available SiteMeters for the most recent 12-month period (April 2007 - March 2008): These Law Prof Blog Rankings are...

11th Circuit Sides With Taxpayer in Long-Running Ballard - Kanter - Lisle Saga

Posted on April 08, 2008
The 11th Circuit yesterday sided with the taxpayer in the long-running Ballard - Kanter - Lisle saga in a 61-page opnion in Ballard v. Commissioner (11th Cir. 4/7/08): The question presented in this appeal is simply whether the Tax Court...

Kansas WIns NCAA Basketball Tournament, Tenures Sociology Professor

Posted on April 08, 2008
Check out this shameless but cool YouTube video celebrating Kansas sociology professor Brian Donovan's grant of tenure: As one of the commenters says: "Many congratulations, Brian. Well done, you insanely vain bastard." (Hat Tip: Inside Higher Ed.)

The Singing CPA

Posted on April 07, 2008
As regular readers of this blog know, I have a weakness for tax songs (see list below the fold). Steven Zelin passed along his latest CD, The Singing CPA. Check out these tracks: Tax Busters Tax Deductible 9 to 9:05...

Burke & McCouch: Turning Slogans into Tax Policy

Posted on April 07, 2008
Karen C. Burke (San Diego) & Grayson M.P. McCouch (San Diego) have posted Turning Slogans into Tax Policy, 27 Va. Tax Rev. ___ (2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The article examines the Bush Administrations's tax cutting agenda, focusing...

Javens Leaves Finance Committee Staff for Capitol Tax Partners

Posted on April 07, 2008
Chris Javens, Tax Counsel on the Senate Finance Committee Republican staff for the past three years, joined Capitol Tax Partners today as a partner. From the press release: Prior to coming to the Hill, he served as several years as...

Erwin Chemerinsky: A Law School for the 21st Century

Posted on April 07, 2008
Last fall, Bill Henderson and I collected advice for founding UC-Irvine Dean Erwin Chemerinsky from forty legal education luminaries. Erwin yesterday outlined his vision for A Law School for the 21st Century: My vision for a law school of the...

Tax Profs at Law, Poverty, & Economic Inequality Conference

Posted on April 07, 2008
Tax Prof presentations at the Law, Poverty, & Economic Inequality Conference last week at Valparaiso: Kimberly Brooks (McGill University Faculty of Law), Approaches to International Redistribution: Is there Any Role for Tax Systems?: The prediction that nation states will be...

Top 50 Charitable Donors

Posted on April 07, 2008
The Chronicle of Philanthropy has released the The Philanthropy 50: Americans Who Gave the Most in 2007. Here are the Top 10: William Barron Hilton: $1.2 billion Jon M. Sr. and Karen H. Huntsman: $750 million T. Denny Sanford: $502.6...

More Law School Rankings News

Posted on April 07, 2008
Al Brophy, US News: Take 4--Lawyer/Judge Assessment Scores: The mean change for Lawyer/Judge assessment is negative (reflecting lower ratings in 2009 than 2008), but it's only -0.02. The SD, while also fairly small (0.16), is more than twice that for...

Godspeed, John Mayer

Posted on April 07, 2008
John Mayer, Executive Director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) and one the most talented people in legal education, is undergoing quadruple bypass surgery today in Chicago. I hope you will keep John in your thoughts and prayers...

Tax Policy Center Hosts Senator McCain's Tax and Economic Plans

Posted on April 07, 2008
The Tax Policy Center hosts Senator McCain's Tax and Economic Plans: A Conversation with Douglas Hotlz-Eakin, McCain Senior Economic Policy Advisor today at noon in Washington, D.C.: The next president of the United States will face immediate challenges addressing the...

Virginia Tax Study Group Meeting

Posted on April 07, 2008
The Virginia Tax Review has posted the schedule of the recent meeting of the Virginia Tax Study Group: Panel #1: The Tax World in 2008 Mortimer Caplin (Caplin & Drysdale, Washington, D.C.) Rod DeArment (Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.) Cecily...

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on April 07, 2008
Saturday: More on the Clinton Tax Returns Florida State Hosts Critical Tax Conference Today Experimenting With the Experimental-Use Exception: Proposals for a Tax Alternative Taxes on Tax-Exempt Bonds Sunday: WaPo: Clinton Tax Returns Happy 3rd Birthday to PrawfsBlawg Top 5...

WaPo: Clinton Tax Returns

Posted on April 06, 2008
Most of Clintons' Charitable Donations Went to Family Foundation (Washington Post), by Matthew Mosk: After earning more than $109 million over eight years, the Clintons took tax write-offs for $10.2 million in charitable contributions. In most of those years, that...

Happy 3rd Birthday to PrawfsBlawg

Posted on April 06, 2008
Happy 3rd birthday to the fine folks at PrawfsBlawg! They are too modest to say, but Prawfs is one of the very best and most popular general interest law prof blogs -- over 1.7 million visitors and 3.1 million page...

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